LOS ANGELES (AP) — A man in prison for rape has been linked by DNA evidence to the killings of a dozen women, including three that another man was convicted of committing, police said Saturday.
Police said they have linked Chester D. Turner, 37, to the murders of 12 women between 1987 and 1998, and they plan to give prosecutors evidence for many of the slayings next week. Turner is serving an eight-year sentence after pleading no contest to rape in 2002.
Police allege the former pizza deliveryman accosted most of his victims on a street in crime-plagued South Los Angeles and raped and strangled them before dumping their bodies.
A mentally disabled janitor was wrongly convicted of three of the killings and spent nearly nine years in prison. David Allen Jones, 44, was released in March.